Hurricane Sandy

Freeholders See Maps Of Sandy's Surge: 'This Was A 500-Year Event'

County engineer's report shows work progressing to get county back to normalcy

A map of Ocean County sat on an easel in the corner of the room, a blue tint highlighting many of the coastal areas but reaching well into the estuaries as well. That blue, of course, represented water -- water that inundated so much of the county's eastern areas. "This is just a little perspective of what's going on," Ocean County Engineer Frank Scarantino said, as he gave a Power Point presentation at the county freeholders' preboard meeting on Wednesday. The map was a FEMA representation of the surge, with the bluish gray areas representing static water, not flowing water, Scarantino said.  The map -- broken into smaller sections -- is in the photos attached to this story. It is an unprecedented amount of water, Freeholder Joseph H. …

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mjmjr

4:55 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012

THEY ARE ALL WORTHLESS,VOTE THEM ALL OUT   more ›

College Drive, Fischer Boulevard Traffic Changes in Early Design Stages

County receives OK on wetlands permits but construction more than a year away

There may come a day where you’ll no longer be able to turn left from Fischer Boulevard to go south on Hooper Avenue. According to Frank Scarantino, Ocean County engineer, that day is a long way off. “Even if we built it tomorrow, it doesn’t mean we’d turn off the light tomorrow,” Scarantino said Tuesday. The county is in the process of designing improvements to the Fischer Boulevard and College Drive jughandles on Hooper Avenue to accommodate increases in traffic expected as a result of the Kean at Ocean partnership at Ocean County College. In April and again in August, residents of Squire Village, a housing development just south of OCC, received letters advising them of the county’s application to the Department of Environmental …

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Barry Fleckmann

2:03 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

"Time to vote in new freeholders." - Rem. No. It's past time. There's an election on Tuesday, November 6th. Let's change from mere rhetoric, to action!   more ›